SMALL 

 WILLOW-HEEB. 



Epilobium montanum. Nat, Ord., Ona- 

 gracece. 



E have already included in our 

 series one species of Epilobium, 

 and a much finer plant than 

 the present ; the small willow- 

 herb, however, if not so striking 

 a plant as the great willow-herb, 

 the E. kirsutum, is quite as familiar 

 a wild flower, and, therefore, claims 

 full recognition at our hands. It 

 has a grace and lightness, too, 

 of its own, that makes it no unfit 

 companion for the large number of 

 beautiful plants with which it here 

 finds itself associated the silver- 

 starred anemone, the ruddy orpine, the curious milk-thistle, 

 the hardy thrift, the golden stone-crop, the delicate bladder- 

 campion. The small willow-herb is very abundant nearly 

 everywhere in Britain, and, in fact, seems to be almost 

 cosmopolitan. It should be looked for or rather, we will 

 say, it may be found, for a plant so common needs little 

 searching after on waste or cultivated ground, the roadside 

 or the garden, often on the thatch of the cottage roof, on 

 old stone walls, or in woods. It is a perennial, and flowers 

 during June and July. Some of the old cottage roofs 

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